ldsfaqs wrote:Solar Technology should be on HOMES and Businesses..... NOT on "farms".
Local City councils should be enacting building ordinances to encorage the transfer to cleaner tech and use of space.
All farms do is keep power company's in power, are inefficient, harm the environment, waste space and energy (cause it has to travel) etc.
Further, "Panels" are obsolete.... there's better solar tech out there.
Every home should be fitted with Solar Tech, Power generating Windmills, Tankless Water Heaters, Waste collection for Fertilization, Bins for recycling everything, Filtration systems for cleaning water and softening, etc.
Even if Nuclear Fusion comes on-line there is no "magic" Silver Bullet to solve all our energy resource needs.
I live in a small city that tried encouraging use of solar electric by means of homeowner tax incentives to stand alone home owners. A noble effort, but they couldn't get it to work so they abandoned the effort after less than one year. We were able get our Civic Center powered by solar electric, however. California in conjunction with the FED's has been doing similar things for several years now, and it is working well.
Efficiency of Scale works well, particularly with solar electric destined for business and manufacturing. Also storage of electricity is a problem for solar electric when it is night time, and/or is too overcast for solar electric to produce optimal power. Few of us can afford sufficient production capacity to meet all of our needs. Battery technology is improving but still needs work. So other large scale storage options are a necessity. Most of us still use the "Grid" as a backup. I reduced my "Grid" electric use by over 95%.
Panels are not obsolete. They can work quite well in the lower 49 states in America. And the cost per watt is competitive with fossil fuels.
Wind power is site specific. But in area's with an average wind of just 12-15 mph can benefit from it.
There is nothing wrong with the Tankless water heaters, but some type of storage medium( water, Eutectic Salts, or earth mass storage, etc.) to preheat the water does greatly increase their efficiency.
Non-petrochemical organics can be uses to produce methane, and fertilizers. Best of both worlds.
Petroleum based organics can be reprocessed into other things.
My city already uses a three bin system for recyclables Blue for (glass, metals, plastics); Green for household wastes(newsprint, bones, and anything else that will not fit down a garbage disposer); and Brown for garden/yard wastes. Which they compost and give away to all that want it. Its is working well.
Waste gray water(Showers, baths, sinks, and the like) conservation can be used, my city is using it for fire suppression, and non-agricultural uses with little treatment. Black water(toilets) is more problematic and needs further treatment before it can be safely used.
